get Pete Crow-Armstrong to god’s country (anywhere away from these swaggerless team USA teammates)

Manfred and MLB are absolutely abandoning these players.

The emotions from Team Venezuela have been remarkable to observe throughout the tournament. To understand why, it’s necessary to understand the path of Venezuelan players to and through the big leagues, and the responsibility they feel they bear for their families and country. From earlier today:

men showing genuine affection for each other, celebrating something they did together, as a collective. let this be a model for masculinity, not the fake hardo military bullshit

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

Pretending like you are going to war instead of a baseball tournament and then losing at baseball is super funny

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

Let’s close out two championships in one year, Palencia

They should make it so the U.S. team has to serve in the military if they lose, like how South Korea does with the Asian Cup.

NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS

We hear “stick to sports” too much, but let’s be clear here: Team USA itself refused to stick to sports, eschewing representation of so much great American culture for, uh, Da Troops and nothing else.

“CBS News executives ascribe some portion of the viewership results to changes tied to the recent shift to Daylight Savings Time, according to a person familiar with the matter.” lol

Team Venezuela doesn't need to put out any weird doctored photos because they have actual footage of their players doing fun stuff and being authentically likeable.

It’s interesting how every billionaire ceo’s ideology boils down to “you should give me all your money, I should be above the law, and I should be allowed to do anything I want.” Thiel being like, “oh you see because otherwise the antichrist” is barely an innovation

That billionaire is revealing disregard for all humanity. Do we want his coalition to have more or less power over our lives?

something that's very hard for today's kids to understand: * there were only a few major brands of chewing gum * everyone knew all of them * each had its own banging anthem, whose words we still know * every one of these brands of gum fucks, to this day

This is a performative war of macho posturing by third rate figures who mistake the audience of social media and right wing cable TV for the gravitas (?) of diplomacy and foreign policy. It would be comic if it was not so painfully tragic.

Thank you Andy Jurgensen for dedicating your Oscar to your late aunt Barbara Hall, archivist extraordinaire, beloved by film historians like me. So sad she isn’t here to see you win. 🥹

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...

yay shout out to film archivists!! #Oscars

One of the very best parts of the Academy is the Margaret Herrick Library, which is a truly wonderful resource. Long may its doors be open to film scholars across the world. www.oscars.org/library

Big respect. “You lose your country with countless small acts of complicity.”

Every member of Team USA is free to quit their lucrative career playing sports and go join the military like Pat Tillman did. This is all just cosplaying eyewash. It's a game. It's entertainment. It's supposed to be fun, not joyless, humorless war.

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names. Good on Amy and Ed.

So excited to get up at 4 am to watch afternoon KBO games next year when Rob Manfred takes this away from us for a season

It's so cool that baseball can sound like this in March.

"I love you" Austin Reaves to the ball in full

The president’s spokeswoman going on the president’s daughter-in-law’s interview program to lie about the effects of her efforts to strongarm other media outlets into changing a report damaging to the regime would be very recognizable to anyone who’s lived under authoritarianism.

Search your camera roll for “Hell”

War is peace and peace is gay.

How about the reputational damage to all the scholars they’ve put on professor watch lists and whose careers they’ve tanked. Own it, script kiddies. No one made you do this.

Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game. No ICE No War No Kings No Fear.

Extremely blatant example of how the right wing media (all of media) reflexively runs cover for republicans even when they don't want it.

we need to make it so whenever someone googles the names of these fuckers, this kind of stuff is always the top result. every single last one of them.

This is the reality of what AI companies want for the future: where EVERYONE is unable to function without relying on them for "intelligence as a utility." In order for them to sell this to us, they need to convince us our brains are never creative, interesting, able enough.

The glee on his face when the questioner specifies the words he used to identify the grants to terminate, and his smirk at the question of his absolute lack of qualifications to make these decisions tell us he loves having the power to hurt.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military

Here is Grammarly’s CEO play-acting at being charitable. The ending spin, that profs like me could benefit from a “ubiquitous bond with users, much like Grammarly has” puts me in a whole new rage. www.linkedin.com/posts/shishi...

hmm I wonder what might happen if this got a certain amount of shares

"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."

In which journalist, critic, and all-around badass @moryan.bsky.social reads Grammarly to absolute filth for being slop merchants and robber-barons. Read it, if only to see a work of takedown beauty, written by an actual human.

Fittingly enough, every single word of this fierce piece of writing is crucial. But these particular sections of words are my favorites.

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. [email protected]

As an American, it is infinitely confusing why America is not functioning at all anymore. This used to be a career ender—and it's somehow not now?

Warning, folks: sounds like there’s a fresh wave of “book club” invites going out to academics today. Block, report, delete! guygeltner.net/blog/from-pr...

Can’t stop laughing at a photo caption in here: “Marco Rubio on Capitol Hill in December. His shoes don't appear to fit.”

I recast Trump's next alleged girl victim's testimony first-personally based on four formal FBI interviews that were just released in the Epstein files (having been previously mysteriously missing). It's time for anyone who can afford to do so to listen katemanne.substack.com/p/the-story-...

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.